Why did Lily marry James ? / Snapes other worst memory

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 67343

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Rebecca" <patientx3 at a...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "M.Clifford" 
> <valkyrievixen at y...> wrote:
> 
> > I suppose, because this thread is also on the topic, that in the 
> > case of him saving Snape from the werewolf, James possessed 
another 
> > virtue.
> 
> Wasn't that a little self-serving though? I've always found the 
> whole "James saving Snape" thing a little shaky, since it wasn't 
like 
> he jumped in front of a bullet for him or something amazingly 
heroic 
> like that. If the prank had gone as planned, Lupin would have 
killed 
> Snape, thus giving him something rather horrible to live with his 
> whole life (even in the case of Snape being the one he killed it 
> seems Lupin is the type who would feel horrible about it anyway). 
And 
> then if anyone every figured out HOW Snape knew how to get past the 
> whomping willow, Sirius--James' best friend--would be arrested. It 
> seems more of a matter of him being reasonable enough to see that 
> Sirius was taking things too far. 


What evidence do you have, other than Snape's version of the tale, 
that Sirius' intent was to kill Snape? I certainly believe that Snape 
believed he had been put in great danger.  And, that adult Snape 
still believes it.  But, we've never been given the immediate events 
that led up to this incident.  We don't know what was in Sirius' head 
at the time.  Did he despise Snape? Undoubtedly. Does that mean he 
intended to use a good friend as a weapon to kill Snape?  I don't 
think that's been proven.

I wonder what more JKR will reveal about the twisted relationships of 
MWPP/Snape.  She's spent a lot of time giving us a very one-sided 
view of James.  Now, in OoP she shows a distinctly nasty side, which 
also serves to illustrate Snape as victim.  I wouldn't be at all 
surprised, that now that she's made James less of an ideal in Harry's 
mind, and a much more realistic, flawed human, if she doesn't plan to 
switch tracks again in the next book and disabuse us of the notion of 
Snape as helpless victim.

Marianne